Toledo, Oct 15 (EFE) .- The Mayor of Ciudad Real, Francisco Cañizares, said that the airport of Ciudad Real, where the Government plans to create an Emergency Reception and Referral Center (CAED) to temporarily serve people arriving at the coast , can accommodate more than 3,000 people.
Cañizares, in a statement to the press in Toledo, where he attended the State of the Region Debate as a guest, confirmed that this has already been said by non-governmental organizations that do not see this measure well “either because of the location, or because of the number” of the people in question .
The mayor of Ciudad Real said that the machines of the public company Tragsa are already working in the gymnasium and they are working on the construction of the floors where the stadiums are to be set up to accommodate the people coming to the Spanish coast.
Cañizares confirmed that the Ciudad Real City Council, like the Communities Board, “is strongly opposed to the construction of the Ciudad Real Airport of the capital which is a detention center for refugees.”
“The facility is not meeting the needs of the community to care for these people, and it is an area that is definitely not ready to accept what the people who have told us will come,” he criticized.
And he recalled that the airport of Ciudad Real is a Project of Singular Regional Interest, approved by the Community Council, where “the possibility of installation in these conditions does not seem even remotely visible”, so that “it is not planned; it is not approved, and it would be wrong for people to settle there “, I also remember that it does not have permission to edit again.
The mayor has announced that the City Council of Ciudad Real will initiate all measures to stop the project and has advanced that the city council has established “all the functions” to see “what is happening there”, as he said. that they have ” “there was no kind of communication from the Spanish Government to the City Council of Ciudad Real”.
Cañizares also argued that the Community Board has not been informed and has confirmed that “it is a complete insult to the integrity of the institutions that should rule between authorities.”
Therefore, he has confirmed that the Consistory will be on the side of the Community Board, if the Independent Authority uses its power to protect the project of these values.
The work of moving land without the permission of the municipality
And they have advanced that the City Council is also considering judging them, since the machine has started to work and the City Council has not given “any kind of permission”, regardless of the fact that the project is not considered in the Project of the airport. of Common Interest means that he has acted “with the bad faith and misunderstanding that surrounds this work.”
Cañizares has confirmed that this Monday he spoke with the representative of the Spanish Government in the Ciudad Real region, David Broceño, without giving him details about the project, and he also spoke with the vice president of the Communities Board, José. Manuel Gentleman, who gave him what he had and what was the same as what the City Council had.
During this discussion, Cañizares revealed, Caballero told him that he “had the same opinion” that “it was not an official project of Ciudad Real or Castilla-La Mancha.”
Government representatives in Castilla-La Mancha deny that they handed over the airport
On the other hand, in a statement to EFE, the Delegation of the Government of Castilla-La Mancha indicated that in the meeting held on October 1 with the Minister of Migration, Elma Saiz, and the delegation of the Government, “no delegation has been given” , but instead they he went “to listen to the activities of the Ministry.”
The same sources also said that the representative of the central government in Castilla-La Mancha, Milagros Tolón, was not present at the meeting, but the delegation was represented through representatives.
And he insisted that there was “none” of any agreement on the Ciudad Real airport being moved.
